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Island Lake CA

8/18/2018

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My wife and I wanted to get outside and go for a hike.  The place we decided on was Island Lake.  It is about 2 hours outside of Sacramento and is a pretty quick and easy hike.  I had heard that there are Brooke Trout in Island Lake and this caught my attention.  I have never targeted Brooke Trout specifically, but was excited to give it a try.  I have heard from other anglers that Brookies are fairly easy to catch and I thought this was going to be great because I was going to have a little time to fish.  I took a multiple flies and planned on uses some different standard woolly buggers and some nymphs.
We got to the park around 10 am, I got my gear together and we started on the hike.  The hike was pretty easy.  I little bit of an uphill climb, but really not too bad.  The hike from the parking lot was probably 1.5 to 2 miles long.  When we got to the lake it was absolutely beautiful.  The water was a gorgeous blue color and the scenery was terrific.  Truly one of the most beautiful lakes I have been to.
Any who, on the hike to the lake I noticed that there were a lot of grasshoppers so I tried fishing with a Hopper pattern which was not my original plan.  There really weren’t any rises going on so I switched over to a wet fly, black bead head woolly bugger.  I didn’t have any success with it.  I switch to a white zonker.  Still no success.  I tries a few other things but only had about an hour and a half to fish and wasn’t able to come up with anything. 
Given the time that I got there and not seeing much activity on the water, the odds really were not in my favor.  However, now that I have been to Island Lake and had a chance to scope it out a bit, I would like to bring my float tube and give it another try in the future.  There is another lake that is somewhat near Island Lake, named Penner Lake.  I have heard many good things about Penner Lake from a few different anglers.  I think next time I am going to have to make the longer hike to Penner Lake and possibly make an overnight trip out of it.

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Jordan Tucker
5/9/2023 10:36:03 am

Feeley Lake out there is awesome too. Caught my biggest Brookie out there.

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Felicity Holy Smoak link
9/8/2023 04:30:55 pm

Great reading yoour blog

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